Hoover Institution fellow Fouad Ajami on the state of Iraq a decade after the U.S.’s invasion and more than one year after the total withdrawal of American troops. Photos: Getty Images

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... I ... we're now ... just to Syria ugly but the situation ... outside Syria how the chaos there ... is leaking into Levanon Jordan and even Iraq ... and Hoover's to fear that Romney is going to stayed with me ... I wanna turn now first your home country of of Levanon that really gets no press no attention ... aam is is it really of a kind of a proxy ... sectarian Syrian war going on in Lebanon ... the unit that is the kind of the city and was playing out the eleven eleven has always been to a city is ... back yard and extension in many ways ... of city and of course ... parts of Oakland which has stepped into the city of debate in ... the second city in Lebanon ... Tiffany is really basically know what you will watching is out there we ... stood in the war are playing out in interpreting and then of course you have this and the Shiites as and when to eleven ... c that Hezbollah complete the trade on the side ... of the Bush regime ... and then you have this in these eleven and ... feeling empowered no feeding is possible now ... some owed another ... the studio would flip ... and to do would be a Sunday ... morning ... city and by extension that will empower them ... things in Levanon terrible and I think and the longer the school or ... custodian goes on the west of ... the Lebanese the new wears off ... the Lebanese no one gets a sense that the White House is sort of given up on Levanon but they certainly haven't given up on Jordan ... King Abdullah has been a great ally of the United States for many years ... I'm in are you confident ... that she can retain power given this ... chaos which seems to be moving towards another serial Intuitive envisioning is we have to worry about them ... it's not so much that when you can live in if you look at this and the Shiites isn't ... increases the sun don't is is fun is complicated ... here is this an income to put them in for the main color but the problem in Jordan now ... is about ... ten percent of the population of Jordan on a city of refugees ... that is often in refugee camp in in Jordan ... is the fifth largest city now in Jordan is this refugee camp ... there's fights over money this likeable Walter this fights over to Solus's ... has a hundred and sixteen thousand city into Fiji's one of jobs in Jordan ... and the Jordanian scene ... is really interesting and the scene here there's also trouble over the border in Iraq ... I know the you know the prime minister and now Maliki personally is ... how does he view what's going on in Syria and what action is he taking a big disappointment noted many key and then when you know that when you look at the outcome when hiccups with but Shiller didn't live up to two thousand and three ... and two thousand ate when he sent them ... knows the nose of jihad is across the board that he brought mayhem ... to interrupt and then ... it turns out that unity contends the town ... and backs the Bush on regime he didn't stick the ... sixty eight and recent ... Easy Shiites we know ... Annie Duke and the Bush ANA Shimon fee and images ... on the use of the of this unusual country ... and the thing about my leaky he spent seventeen years ... in in in exile in Sydney ... so there must be all kinds of bonds that the tea in ... between the Iraqi Prime Minister ... and the city and the concession saying you're breaking in our pages about the struggle for the fertile Crescent union called it the sort of vision of a broader Middle Eastern conflict ... along sectarian lines ... that was several months ago and I do use CSS or for that period imports in that situation and to the thick of it that you know if we have a map and we look at it ... you know ... from the Iranian border with Iraq to the Mediterranean ... to be with ... you and the region if you win with a map ... these these ... these these these countries that work in many ways when borders were drawn by the West in nineteen twenty or so ... this map is coming up on ... it's not that the that that they would be patient ... in many ways been doing this off traditional concern deal with the city a ... few of ... the Sunni majority ... the value of minority on the coast of the Kurdish ... minority in the Northeast ... and other drawers minority in in ... in the Southeast a statistic this patch ... of communities that that Lebanon ... again ... look at the rock ... near the Keystone is ... in Mosul ... and and young mother who can down in DC than the government in Baghdad where many key ... pays no attention to the concerns and I decided when the city and the kids ocean so I think the map of the third time Crescent is very much and play a map of the fertile Crescent is in play in and of course we have Iran which we didn't even have time ... to discuss Hoover Institution fellow Korea the Johnny I hope you'll come back and join us again and in a very very soon